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If these medical records were in an open/standard/unencumbered format there would be startups all over this.
by cheriot 12y ago
If these medical records were in an open/standard/unencumbered format there would be startups all over this.
- jordanpg 12y agoI assume that there are and that they are all individually fantasizing about being the company that builds that standard. So long as health care is a product needed by every individual in the country and remains the beneficiary of some $1T in federal outlays (to say nothing of state and private costs), equilibrium will be elusive. There is far too much money to be made in the churn.
- Scoundreller 12y agoHere's an open-source one in Canada that has about a 20% market share in Ontario: http://oscar-emr.com/ http://oscar-emr.com/ Built by an engineer-turned-physician.
- yuhong 12y agoThinking about it, it is probably no coincidence that this was done in Canada which has public healthcare.
- bingobob 12y agoHealth Level 7? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_Level_7 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_Level_7
- nkerkin 12y agoFrom my understanding, HL7 is designed for data transfer rather than persistence.
- nkerkin 12y agoYou should checkout OpenEhr[0], "enable the development and deployment of open, interoperable and computable patient-centric health information systems" 0: http://www.openehr.org/ http://www.openehr.org/